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Leading from the Back: Making Data Science Work at a UX-driven Business

[Speaker: John Foreman] How does a company whose business is not data, use its massive data set? John Foreman, author of the Excel-based data science book Data Smart and Chief Scientist for MailChimp, discusses what it means to "lead from the back" in data science, even if that sometimes means breaking out a spreadsheet in favor of Hadoop from time to time in the Microsoft Research Visiting Speaker Series.

Leading from the Back: Making Data Science Work at a UX-driven Business

[Speaker: John Foreman] How does a company whose business is not data, use its massive data set? John Foreman, author of the Excel-based data science book Data Smart and Chief Scientist for MailChimp, discusses what it means to "lead from the back" in data science, even if that sometimes means breaking out a spreadsheet in favor of Hadoop from time to time in the Microsoft Research Visiting Speaker Series.